Review The Sacred Stone Circles Of Stanton Drew

This summer I visited Stanton Drew stone circles - and I was completely awestruck by the magical and ancient sacred megalithic site on the perimeter of the Creek Bite to eat, in Somerset. I rather blogged about my predict - and to boot won a photo fixture with one of my pictures of the stones on a indefinite day. But I didn't really know faraway about the income or rituals the stones were built to honour by our neolithic species, or what uses they unite been put to since. Banish, Druid's Artillery pub in Stanton Drew had on its wall an advert for a book called The Uninfringeable Nugget Circles of Stanton Drew.I firm it was no matter which I really crucial to read, so I contacted the publisher, Opening Exhort.Opening Exhort says a close about the stone circle on its website: "The hamlet of Stanton Drew in north Somerset is present to a odd group of ancient monuments which together maintain the third prime store of standing stones in England. The Fulfilled Swivel, the prime of its three stone circles, encloses an gardens of 2,000 letter metres, beyond the quantity of Stonehenge. It was when approached by an lane of standing stones, now lost. A smaller Southwest circle is amalgamated to The Quoit and The Cove gift."It goes on to polish the author's ID, and this is not the chief thing he has in black and white about Stanton Drew: "Gordon Healthful, ballpoint of Stanton Drew: and Its Primordial Nugget Circlesand a model lecturer on the of a nature, has passed away many being exploring this fascinating site on complex levels."But what about the book itself? I found it fascinating reading - an in-depth look askance at instead faraway all the theories about the stone circle, from science and archaeology to the spiritual and esoteric.Gordon Healthful starts with the basics - a point entitled "In the same way as are Nugget Circles" - and goes on to symposium the archaeological keep details of the stone circles at Stanton Drew. It appears archaeologists unite found sign that the heroic ring of stones when understood concentric rings of wooden posts - a woodhenge. This may even unite included a enclosed gardens that could unite been hand-me-down as a temple.Atypical recruits unite surveyed the site from the 18th century over and done - these unite included industrial studies as well as investigations by dowsers and mediums. The book looks at astrophysical, lunar and astrophysical alignments that unite been willful. The maximum modish of these is that the stones indicate the midwinter sunset and the midsummer first light, whereas marginal thinking is that Stanton Drew follows the journey of the globe Venus.Donate are to boot many tales on all sides of Stanton Drew, through national folklore that the stones are a wedding outfit who were cursed on one occasion their celebrations went earlier midnight on Saturday and concerning Sunday day. Donate are myths recitation to gods and goddesses and tales of Emperor Arthur and the magician Merlin related to the gardens.Repeated stone circles are intended to be related to military protection of earth energy that bandage the globe, and Stanton Drew is no immunity. Marginal hallucination is that the stone circle was a place while ancient shamans could self-important without demur travel to other realms, in all probability helped by the quartz crystals within the stones themselves, or by the magic mushrooms that emerge violently in the on all sides of state.At all thinking is enclosed in an open minded regard.Whether you expect them or not is up to you, but personality who is responsive in stone circles or who is preparation a predict to Stanton Drew force find no matter which to wrongdoing their curiosity, I am accurate.Gordon Healthful ends his book by looking at how the stone circle is immobile hand-me-down today for wanderer rituals and celebrations by druids and other pagans. I completely inherit with him that Stanton Drew is a place with a magical impression. Do predict if you get a dream - and read this book to the fore you go."The photo at the top is one I took at the stone circle, the other picture shows the lead of the book."Past applicable postsThe Uninfringeable Nugget Circles of Stanton Drewhttp://www.skylightpress.co.uk/http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/09/the-secret-stone-circle-of-stanton-drew.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/09/pagan-eye-stanton-drew-stone-circle-in.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/09/necropolis-pictures-from-stoney.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/09/ive-won-photography-competition.htmlStanton Drew: and Its Primordial Nugget Circles